Okay, so we know that the order of actual Stories at the top of our feeds work in a similar algorithmic way to our actual feeds.

Would Instagram really be this creepy? How is the Order of Story Views REALLY Measured? There are plenty more experiments where this came from, but are people just seeing what they want to see here?

After 3 days of solidly checking my original profile, my new account became 1st in the ‘view’ list and dropped to second when my current top viewer had seen the story.” “I watched all of my stories multiple times, went right back to the beginning of my profile, but I didn’t see anything so it would appear like an anonymous stalker.

“I created another account using a different email address and stalked my own (original) profile every day,” said another Reddit user. After I did this for almost one week, my friend uploaded a story and guess who was on top of his list? Me!”. “In fact, for a few days I visited his profile a lot each day and I told him not to visit my profile at all. “So, I tried a little experiment with a friend of mine,” said one Reddit user. Weird? Or simply Insta tapping into our stalkerish tendencies? Their fake, “stalker” accounts started showing up top in their Instagram Story views list. To test this theory, a number of Reddit users created fake accounts and checked out their main profile multiple times from their alt account without commenting, liking, or interacting with anything. Now, there is a theory that people are throwing around, but it’s unclear as to whether this is based on research and facts or simply wishful thinking.Īccording to this theory, the people who view our profiles the most – even if they don’t engage with our content – rank the highest in our Instagram Story views list.īasically, profile lurkers and our stalkers appear at the top of the list.

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